I understand this is a public blogging website but please refrain from putting what I call “fandom nonsense” on posts that have absolutely nothing to do with your obsession.
Of course they shouldn’t have taken the eagles. Sauron could have easily seen them coming, dispatched the Nazgul, defeated them, and claimed the ring. That plan would never have worked.
What they should have done is built a giant catapult on top of Minas Tirith, taped the ring to a boulder, and launched that into the top of the volcano, like a golf ball.
they should have given denethor the ring and then put him in the catapult and launched him into the volcano since he wanted to be on fire so bad anyway
Somebody out there has gotta have the “what about a catapult” series of gifs from like … 2008?
remeber whenyou didnt have to wash an apple off WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED
you used to,, NOT wash ur apple before u eat it????????? do you think whashing fruits/veggies before u eat them was something invented bc of covid19??
if i killedmyself tonight would you cry
okay so like I don’t wash my apples? I just rub them clean on my pants? like I get it in a store a lot of people like touch it but when they’re from your garden the only people touching it are the person picking it (me) and the person eating it (also me)
Countless bugs walked on that apple with their pee feet
Uh yall realize pesticides stay on your food til you wash like… Also specifically in America (iirc might be in other countries too) they usually put wax on fruit to keep it pretty so like yikes. Also salmonella and food poisoning is a thing that happens when you don’t wash your produce.
so stupid. Who gives a crap?
The mechanical force of a tight grip and rub on your apple should be enough to remove those bacteria. Washing with water is mostly for the pesticides, but even then you can probably get them off with rubbing. Regardless, you should still be doing some form of cleaning your apples.
chips is fucking crying out for help and you people are just ignoring him to go on your soapbox
DC Super Hero Girls has given me many things. But by far my favorite thing is they have the best incarnation of Bruce Wayne. And I say that not as like oh this is 10000% who Batman is.
No. I mean they have the best version of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Better than even the movies have gotten for one sole reason;
I want you to take one look at this bougie himbo, one fucking look,
And tell me who in their right mind would believe this man is the goddamned Batman.
He is too pretty. Too well put together. Too big a himbo. Too covered in fucking camera crews and groupies to ever pull it off. No one would ever even fucking consider this gem of a man could do it!
I cannot tell exactly when the collapse happened, historically, or identify what exactly about the sound bothers me, but there is something horribly, horribly wrong with the way that the average modern woman talks, the vocal cadence of the average woman newscaster, presenter, advertiser, etc. is so unpleasant and annoying, it drives me insane
I would blame Madonna and Cyndi Lauper but it wasn’t nearly this bad even in the late 90s so idk
Are you talking about the Great Northern Vowel Shift perchance?
I think that might be part of it, nasalized tensing of the short vowels, which reflects the overall tendencies towards nasality and a tense glottis, but it’s also the dips into vocal fry and condescending bitchy tone with a hint of valley girl bimbo inflection
As someone who CAN speak with a strong shifted accent on command, can confirm that it does tense the glottis a bit. I wouldn’t say that it’s more nasal than my normal voice though. It’s more of a wider, sloppier mouth placement. Haven’t really noticed it shift the sound to a different resonance space
The vocal fry is harder to determine the real cause of. Part of it is likely that the transatlantic accent is no longer taught to presenters, and women, looking for other ways to sound professional, opted to deepen their voices. Except of course you can’t if you haven’t gone through testosterone based puberty, so you end up speaking on your fry
I had no idea the transatlantic accent was acquired but apparently it was standard teaching for those in politics or media:
by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now
This is one of my favorite types of terminally online interactions and it’s always happening because people online not only refuse to read or learn anything but also refuse to ever use a search engine that is immediately available
i like that the name nuzlocke stuck. like the original thing was just called hard mode but it featured a nuzleaf named after locke from lost and to this day its still called a nuzlocke. theres even variations like wonderlocke. like the locke part became a suffix. i like that. i really like how words happen
